I can remember in the first ever interview I did with Bobbie Johnson at the Guardian I spoke about “Being a young entrepreneur, everybody is ready to help you out, BUT conversations with my bank manager have been very different than they might have been if I was older – after all, I can’t ask for a business loan because I haven’t even got a credit rating.”

It’s a sad truth that some of my more recent businesses would have grown much faster if I’d have had the support of my local bank. So when I seen this photo below (via: http://www.cunninglyclevermarketing.com/wordpress/?p=482) it really inspired me to push my bank further, and that there is hope, even when you are turned down!

The sign next to this photo at the Ferrari Galleria in Maranello , Italy reads:

“Thirty years later, Enzo bought the bank!”